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Tilda Swinton thinks about death and says you should, too
Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.
Novelist John Green says OCD is like an 'invasive weed' inside his mind
by Terry Gross
Green's YA novel, Turtles All The Way Down, has been recently adapted to film. Green described living with OCD, and how "one little thought" could take over his mind, in this 2017 interview.
How streaming, mergers and other major changes are upending Hollywood
by Tonya Mosley
Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the changes.
Taylor Swift's confessional 'Tortured Poets' would have benefitted from an edit
by Ken Tucker
Though Swift performs a range of experience and emotions, the music on her 11th album feels thin and is often in service of lyrics that could have used a red pencil.
Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola
by Terry Gross
Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'
by Terry Gross
During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.